Arabic-L:PEDA:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
Paul,
The only program you will need is Audacity. It is also free and
open-source. I have used it in personal and professional applications,
and I can comment on its robustness in both spheres, having used it for
the same kind of projects as you. It is very widely used, and the
project has compiled versions for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
platforms. Check out the project web page here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
If you or your students are impressed and want to thank the Audacity
team, you might even want to consider translating their website and/or
interface into Arabic for extra-credit and/or reward:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/translation
I hope this helps.
Best,
_AJS
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:katia zakharia <katia.zakharia at mom.fr>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
Good evening. The best solution I found for recording exercises for my
students and asking them to record exercises for me is the freeware
Audacity. One needs headphones for recording. The files can be saved
as MP3 and it is possible to add comments (or music or silence…) when
needed.
KZ
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
Simple, out-of-the-box solutions:
Several sound editing programs can be found for each platform (and http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
which works on all of them) which can be set up to record on a
single stereo channel. That way, your students can, say, record their
assignments on the right channel, and your TAs can record on the left.
If you need textual feedback, you might consider an annotation program
like http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ (or something with a more
intuitive interface!) which will allow arbitrary text annotation on a
tier indexed to any stretch of audio in the file.
If you would like a more customized solution, sound files are
relatively easy to understand (and there are libraries for the major
scripting languages to simplify it further), and a little departmental
money and a computer science co-op student will go a long way.
Hope this helps,
Dan Parvaz.
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Margaret Litvin <mlitvin at bu.edu>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
Greetings. Many of our language teachers at BU have good results with a
free program called Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features
Best,
Margaret
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Margaret Litvin
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature
Boston University
Dept. of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
718 Commonwealth Ave., room 302A
Boston, MA 02215
978-302-9029
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
All,
The University of Oregon is currently working on A National Virtual
Language Lab (ANVILL), and it is something that answers the questions
being asked in this thread. It is a free service that you can use
now, and it is evolving a lot as the project moves forward. You can
find out more about the project here: https://anvill.uoregon.edu/anvill2/
I hope this helps.
Chris Holman
Arabic Instructor
University of Oregon
chrish at uoregon.edu
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:matoler at GMAIL.COM
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
Hi Paul,
There are few possible solutions, each of them useful in different
ways and each of them different degrees of difficulty. You can use
any number of audio editing software packages, but none of them are
quick and easy in the way you would want them to be for homework
grading. Your easiest solution for many purposes may be a web site
called VoiceThread. Students will be able to comment on an image,
document, pdf, etc., and the professor can insert comments as well: http://www.voicethread.com
Check it out, you may be able to come up with ways to use it that
suit your purposes.
Another possible solution is, believe it or not, YouTube. You can
create YouTube channels for a class, students can upload their audio
recordings. All they would need is a single image to make it a
video. This would allow comments to be inserted at the right points,
but they would have to be written. These are the solutions that
immediately come to mind, but let me think about it.
Best,
Michael
Michael A Toler (mtoler.com)
Chief Program Officer, NITLE (National Institute for Technology and
Liberal Education)
PO Box 812467
Wellesley, MA 02482
781-235-4910
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Alex Bellem <a.bellem at cbrl.org.uk>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
Greetings
It would presumably be easiest to record onto the laptop. Either the
laptops have in-built microphones, or an external mic could be bought
cheaply and easily. The soundfile can be submitted as an email
attachment or via CD / flash drive. If you use a programme such as
Audacity (freely downloadable) then the tutor would just need to open
the soundfile and (while listening) record comments at the relevant
juncture, then the new (amended) version can be returned to the student.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity
Best
Alex
Dr Alex Bellem
Research Fellow
The British Institute
PO Box 519, Jubaiha, Amman 11941, Jordan
Tel: + 962 (0)6 534 1317
Fax: + 962 (0) 533 7197
Mob: 079 983 0512
www.cbrl.org.uk
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